Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3

Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3 - or the Central and Western Rajput States of India

The text is annotated with numerous footnotes, which were numbered sequentially on each page. On occasion, a footnote itself is annotated by a note, using an asterisk as the reference. This distinction is followed here. Those notes on notes are given alphabetic sequence (A, B., etc.), and are positioned directly following the main note. Since there are over 1500 notes in this volume, they have been gathered at each chapters end, and resequenced for each chapter. Links are provided to navigate from the reference to the note, and back. Crookes plan for the renovation of the Tods original text, including a discussion of the transliteration of Hindi words, is given in detail in the Preface. It should be noted that the use of the macron to guide pronunciation is very unevenly followed, and there was no intent here to regularize it. The antiquary, who has dipped into the records of the dark period in European church history, can have ocular illustration in Rajasthan of traditions which may in Europe appear questionable. The vision of the Bishop of Orleans,[5] who saw Charles Martel in the depths of hell, undergoing the tortures of the damned, for having stripped the churches of their possessions, thereby rendering himself guilty of the sins of all those who had endowed them, would receive implicit credence from every Hindu, whose ecclesiastical economy might both yield and derive illustration from a comparison, not only with that of Europe, but with the more ancient Egyptian and Jewish systems, whose endowments, as explained by Moses and Ezekiel, bear a strong analogy to his 592own. The disposition of landed property in Egypt, as amongst the ancient Hindus, was immemorially vested in the cultivator; and it was only through Josephs ministry in the famine that the land became Pharaohs, as the Egyptians sold every man his field.[6] And the coincidence is manifest even in the tax imposed on them as occupants of their inheritance, being one-fifth of the crops to the king, while the maximum rate among the Hindus is a sixth.[7] The Hindus also, in visitations such as that which occasioned the dispossession of the ryots of Egypt, can mortgage or sell their patrimony (bapota). Joseph did not attempt to infringe the privileges of the sacred order when the whole of Egypt became crown-land, except the lands of the priests, which became not Pharaohs; and these priests, according to Diodorus, held for themselves and the sacrifices no less than one-third of the lands of Egypt. But we learn from [510] Herodotus, that Sesostris, who ruled after Josephs ministry, restored the lands to the people, reserving the customary tax or tribute.[8] ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 57375
Author: Tod, James
Release Date: Jul 5, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Crooke, William, 1848-1923